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Jaakko and Sirpa have never met face to face but they talk on the phone every day. When he hears about her declining health, he decides to go meet her in another city; a challenge if you can't see and are paralyzed from the chest down.

How to Kill a Cloud is a documentary of a Finnish female scientist trying to create rain in the United Arab Emirates desert. Can ambition be measured in rain?

A disabled man moves away from his childhood home, leaving his aging mother to live alone for the first time in her life.

The Munich Olympic Stadium, 1972. Athletes and officials are preparing for the 10,000 meters final. Lasse Virén is warming up on the track. It is not a big day only for Virén but for the whole nation. But one man cannot win alone. It takes a dedicated group of hardworking, reliable people. In a desolate bunker near the track, six Finnish men are preparing to help Lasse achieve the run of his life. A run that changes history. All for the small, relentless nation from the dark cold North.

A bearded Finnish hermit who oscillates between sweating out his demons in a sauna, and crawling around the forest at night to document the endangered lynx.

On September 22, 1998, the Iranian poet Hamid Hajizadeh and his nine-year-old son Karun, whose name symbolically refers to Iran's longest river, were brutally murdered in their home in Kerman. The documentary film, based on the statements of the survivors, tries to sensitively reconstruct one of the many terrible, politically motivated events that took place in Iran at the end of the previous century, and draws us into the fateful day with the help of detailed shots of the objects in Hamid's study.

A secluded sect, Sky People, has gotten into a crisis. Its charismatic leader Satu has fallen ill with a strange decease and followers one by one have abandoned her. In a decaying cult center the last loyal disciple, young Niilo, takes care of his withering leader. But Niilo's faith will be tested when a message from stars tells that the final solution is at hand. Is death an illusion, as Satu says?

Siblings Inka and Juha are hiking in the woods. The tension starts to grow between them. This opens the old wounds of the couple and wakes up the demonic powers of the forest.

Two burglars in the wrong house at the wrong time.

Skateboards make noise. Skaters hang out in public, getting their kicks in the same urban space that most other people just pass through on their way to their daily duties. Fearlessness, the ability to laugh at pain, and a generally relaxed life are what are usually make it to film when recording skate culture. I Am A Spider opens up other viewpoints.

The United Nations selected Finland as the happiest country in the world twice in a row. Finns are still very skeptical about this recognition - they tend to see themselves as melancholic, pessimistic and dreary. Is this really the best possible life? A poetic documentary that plows deep into the nation's soul and visits places where these Nordic people can be found at their happiest.

Mirja and Timo are finally going on a holiday.

Aino tells Salla a ghost story. Salla wants to know, if the story is true.

Annie has escaped to Finland from Congo and is facing both her past and future in a first aid class. But tying a bandage can't fix the wounds caused by war, and it even seems absurd mirrored to the horrors of her past. Giving and receiving help, however, is the ultimate bond between human beings, and gives Annie faith for the future. The help Annie receives will move on to others too. Bandage is a short documentary film about the importance and difficulty of giving help.

In 2012, a Tanzanian girls' football team arrives in Finland to play football in Helsinki Cup. None of the girls have ever travelled outside their home region before, and they have great expectations on how the international tournament will affect their future. However, when the girls return home, their expectations seem to be left unfulfilled: school isn't going well, people are jealous, the team is falling apart, and some of their neighbours don't even believe the girls have been anywhere at all. The documentary tells a story about life, dreams, and fair play: The play may be fair in the pitch, but not so much in life itself.

The music video for the song "Minä toivon" by a Finnish singer Jonna Tervomaa from her 2013 album "Eläköön".